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John Polyzogopoulos, a partner at  Blaney McMurtry, is a member of the firm’s Commercial Litigation Group.

John's practice covers a wide variety of commercial matters. He acts for parties in oppression remedy and partnership disputes where one partner is being unfairly treated by another.

John acts for creditors, debtors and receivers/ trustees in insolvency proceedings under both the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act or the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, as well in all other aspects of debtor-creditor and banking law.

John is experienced in handling injunction cases, including obtaining Mareva injunctions that freeze assets that are about to be removed from Ontario to avoid creditors, Anton Piller orders that authorize the private search and seizure of documents relevant to a case that are about to be destroyed by the opposing side, and injunctions preventing employees and others from breaching their non-competition obligations.

John advises various clients in the construction industry and handles matters under the Construction Lien Act.

John has acted both for and adverse to various levels of government in respect of commercial disputes involving government agencies.

He also represents litigants in cases of professional negligence involving financial advisers, lawyers and insurance brokers.

He acts as counsel to various minor hockey associations.

John has also been involved in enforcing foreign judgments and other private international law matters.

John has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario, including acting as lead counsel at trials, on appeals before the Ontario Court of Appeal and at private arbitrations.

A Past President and current member of the board of the Hellenic Canadian Lawyers' Association, John is fluent in Greek and serves clients in that language as well.